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What do you think drives people to bicker with strangers on sites like this?

Asked by ucme (50047points) November 7th, 2019

I think maybe it’s the loony bus.
What say you?

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RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Too much free time.

ucme's avatar

Ahh @RedDeerGuy1 but one could spend one’s free time here, only in a more productive way.

RedDeerGuy1's avatar

Wasted time doing what you enjoy is not wasted time. Some people enjoy bickering. It gives one the sence that they are contributing to society. I’m tempted to put Fluthering as missionary work in my resume.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

A need to feel important.

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@ucme -Thanks for the validation. Lol! :)

ucme's avatar

@lucillelucillelucille I felt it important to do so :-)

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@ucme – I appreciate that and now feel extra sassy.
I believe I will go bitch at a stranger!

ucme's avatar

@lucillelucillelucille Careful now, don’t go breaking that deal :D

ucme's avatar

Don’t even need to open that lol

raum's avatar

The same reasons that drive people to banter with strangers on sites like this.

Just the other side of the same coin, I think?

lucillelucillelucille's avatar

@raum-Stop thinking & start bitching. ;)

raum's avatar

I think, therefore I bitch?

Brian1946's avatar

Whoooaa- ancient French philosopher drops the mic! ;-o

30 years later, and now I’m having my own excellent adventure. ;-)

Coolhandluke's avatar

I’m just here to get laid………………..with knowledge struck down from Mount Fluther.

ucme's avatar

I’m only here to have a daft laugh with those deserving of my company & to take the piss out of those who don’t.

Coolhandluke's avatar

Hell if this place were a bar, I’d have a drink with any of ya’s. Even that firecracker, Dutchess.

ucme's avatar

No comment m’lud!

MrGrimm888's avatar

Anonymity, gives people a false sense of power.

And some people, need to get bitched at…

ucme's avatar

Bitching at deserving losers is fair game, they bloody well ask for it.
Bickering though, where you see a group, same ones every fucking time, arguing as if they’re attention seeking, miserable bastards…that’s just boring as hell.

Vignette's avatar

The need to be right dammit!

Darth_Algar's avatar

Probably the same thing that drives some people to engage in inane banter with strangers on sites like this.

ucme's avatar

Hahaha, took you a while misery guts :D

Darth_Algar's avatar

The bigger question is why do you care? You’ve whined about this enough, when you can easily ignore it.

cookieman's avatar

I don’t think we’re strangers at all.

MrGrimm888's avatar

^That’s a good point. Although we really only know the person, as they represent themselves here… I could be a 5 year old girl, with a wild imagination…..

I do think that most of us know, or at least have a good idea, of who each jelly is. What their passions are. Beliefs. Political leanings. Things like that. We’re a motley crew…

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